Genetic Information: Acquisition, Access, and Control

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Can We Learn From Eugenics?....Pages 1-16
Preventing Genetic Impairments....Pages 17-30
Private Parties, Public Duties?....Pages 31-39
Coercion, Control, and Consequence in Genetic Testing....Pages 41-56
Genetic Testing and Adverse Selection in the Market for Life Insurance....Pages 57-70
Genetic Engineering and German Health Insurances....Pages 71-78
Selling Souls....Pages 79-84
The Ethics of 21st Century Bioinformatics....Pages 85-96
There is Nothing Special about Genetic Information....Pages 97-103
High Speed Genetic Testing Technology and the Computerization of the Medical Record....Pages 105-120
Ethical Questions in the Pursuit of Genetic Information....Pages 121-128
The Ethics of Gene Patenting....Pages 129-137
Paradigms of Author/Creator Property Rights in Intellectual Property Law....Pages 139-148
Regulating the Commercialization of Human Genetics....Pages 149-161
Ethical Impacts of Human Health-Related Biotechnology in Brazil....Pages 163-174
Adolescents and Carrier Testing....Pages 175-182
Down’s Syndrome Screening....Pages 183-190
Public Perspectives of the New Genetics....Pages 191-199
Genetics and Journalism....Pages 201-205
Genetic Information and “genetic Identity”....Pages 207-218
Genetic Information and Knowing When You Will Die....Pages 219-233
Influences of Genetic Testing on A Person’s Freedom....Pages 235-241
Genetic Knowledge....Pages 243-253
Germ-Line Gene Therapy....Pages 255-265
Negotiating the Dilemmas of Prenatal Testing for Genetic Disorders....Pages 267-273
Genetic Information....Pages 275-281
Genetic Knowledge in a Just Society....Pages 283-295
Biotechnology, Genetic Information, and Community....Pages 297-308
Linear Destiny and Geometric Fate....Pages 309-320
A New Framework for the Use of Genetic Information....Pages 321-329
Back Matter....Pages 331-335